One
common trait of most successful people is the fact that they can see themselves
from the outside. They can stand in another personís shoes and see what others
see. This is what the late Martin Luther King, Jr. meant in his speech. The
excerpt can be applied to the civil rights movement and to the conflict with
North Vietnam. In both instances, it can be applied to both sides. King ma have
intended it for those who were fighting for freedom from oppression, the
blacks, but it certainly would not hurt the white people to look at themselves
from another point of view or at the situation as a whole from a different
perspective.